when X-Men ’97 When it hit Disney+ last week, rapt viewers were shouting out one thing — except “For me, my X-Men!” – When they see Marvel’s mutants back in action: “Where are the this Have you been to Cyclops?
comics.he already in comics.
X-Men ’97 has been proven to be smash hit For Marvel, taking audiences back to the heady days of the X-Men craze in the 1990s, when animated series and a series of highly successful books and storylines over the next decade.The legendary journey of Chris Claremont exist Uncanny X-Men, The Mutants reached a level of mainstream popularity unlike any other era since. But its greatest success so far may be one nearly two and a half years in the making: the chance to overturn existing rules. other X-Men’s fundamentally flawed mainstream adaptation of one of the most important mutant characters Scott Summers.
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Cyclops X-Men ’97Premiere Episodes – As he prepares to start a family with Jean Grey, he balances his desire for a future away from the endless struggle, the pressure of leading the X-Men in a moment of global mutant awareness, and the tragic loss of his mentor Charles Xavier – was a man of many talents. We get to see Scott’s main trait in the comics, his tactical acumen, as he guides the team through a series of plans, backup plans, and countless contingencies. We see the deeply conflicted man behind the ruby quartz sunglasses, the push and pull of the Scout who has always been Charles’ favorite student, and the rage he has grown over the years at being beaten down by a world that hates and fears him.
Yes, we do see him as a bad guy.He’s a frontline action hero who has honed his mutant talents over the years. do things we’ve never seen before Things the character does on screen outside of fighting games – glide with his optic blast (kinetic energy, not heat, never heat, please don’t get into this again), wipe the floor with paranoia, do it with a pillar Aerial landings of red energy slowed his fall.For many, many people, this is the first time since X-Men has returned animation series Having ended nearly thirty years ago, here was Cyclops like they’d never seen before – sure, a little whiny and a bit of a goody-two-shoes, but he was a full-fledged man and a hero who was so much more than Here it is. That. A righteous, funny, emotional character, and most importantly, actually very interesting.
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This is Scott’s man It appeared in comics a long time ago— a man pushed and pulled between the ideals of how he sees himself, a man who faces one struggle after another as a mutant, and a man who is constantly fighting against the legacy of Xavier’s dreams and the dreams he so often inherits. A man, sacrificing a little of the restraint he has practiced throughout his life, can level a sentinel in a second. A regular (often) make a mess His personal life and relationships as he needs to overthink every little detail, from his love life to his leadership of the many iterations of the X-Men over the years. He’s blessed to have this depth and layered identity, thanks, of course, to comics’ long history as a medium.This is especially true over the past few decades, with a host of creative teams providing Scott with some truly fantastic character work, from New X-Men In Kieron Gillen’s brief time, he turned on his resistance leader, and eventually Brian Michael Bendis turned on him. A more worrisome runexist Uncanny X-Menand further enter The Age of Krako. You can do more with decades of monthly comic books, even between reboots and creative retoolings, than you can with a two-hour movie or even several seasons of animated TV Much more.
But despite this, Scott’s mainstream reputation didn’t improve, which led to something surprising: X-Men ’97This take on the character is a fairly faithful continuation of his characterization X-Men: The Animated Series—In the decades since, one depiction has dominated most of all: the Cyclops fox X-Men Movie. The problem with Fox’s Scott isn’t that countless movies have made of the character, but that he never really existed. good or bad, Bryan Singer’s X-Men The movie changed superhero cinema forever, especially for the X-Men, which meant that versions of these characters became ingrained in the public consciousness in a way that no one else could (and still can’t escape, like Kyle (Same as “The Beast” in Spanish)) Back up in Finish Miracle).While this is a positive for the characters these films ultimately focus on, i.e. WolverineProfessor Improper handling other reason– meaning they never got the attention they deserved, and Scott suffered as a result.
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Cyclops in Fox’s film is barely even a character, mostly because we rarely get to sit with him except in his role as the rule-abiding member of the team, or in his role as Gene’s tortured love interest. His powers are rarely on display, and when they are, his abilities are far more limited and restrained than the confidence we see him display. X-Men ’97 (There’s an argument to be made here about the difference in medium, but even so, these movies always had more compelling displays of superpowers than anything they did with Scott). Scott never explored his role in the X-Men or as a hero, and we rarely saw him as a person beyond that role, instead fading him into the background and living with his now misunderstood reputation to restrain him. has been in the public consciousness for a long time. Now, at least, X-Men ’97 Some steps are being taken to address this – hopefully this time, interest in the series will at least make more people want to see what all the fuss is about, and read some Really really great comics.
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